The Mosquito Coast, a novel, by Paul Theroux ; with woodcuts by David Frampton
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The Mosquito Coast, a novel, by Paul Theroux ; with woodcuts by David Frampton
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The Mosquito Coast
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7735398
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by Paul Theroux ; with woodcuts by David Frampton
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a novel
Summary
Allie Fox, the brilliant and paranoid inventor takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they left. Fleeing from an America he sees as mired in materialism and conformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer life. His utopian experiment takes a dark turn when his obsessions lead his family towards unimaginable danger
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